Canadian democracy in ‘advanced disrepair,’ claims Coyne
Photo by Iouri Goussev/Flickr The Crisis of Canadian Democracy Andrew Coyne Sutherland House, 2025 A long-standing maxim in the newspaper business holds that the longer you...
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Con media grasping at straws to claim Liberal bias in news coverage
Winnipeg Free Press headquarters at 1355 Mountain Avenue in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Fresh off what must have been a crushing election loss by their favoured Conservatives, right-wing media are getti...
Canada’s corporate subsidies mostly enrich shareholders of multinationals
Bay Street, Toronto. Photo by Brian Carson/Flickr. At The Trough: The Rise and Rise of Canada’s Corporate Welfare Bums Laurent Carbonneau Sutherland House, 2025 Like most s...
How the Online News Act came back to haunt the federal election
Well funded right-wing social media pages including Canada Proud have dominated the platforms this election by playing fast and loose with the facts, leading to a downward online spiral into…
Rebel News again proves that it’s not doing journalism
Until last week’s federal leaders’ debates, Rebel News and its gadfly founder, Ezra Levant, were little more than minor irritants in Canada’s media landscape, like a pesky patch of poison…
Media research in Canada leaves much to be desired
Newspaper and periodical reading room, Library of Congress, 1901. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. The recent revelation that data offered up by a Toronto Metropolitan University research centre ha...
The Hub is getting increasingly desperate to boost the flagging Cons
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre. Photo from Flickr. Pity the poor Hub. Mere weeks ago, it appeared that the Conservative Party it cheers on so ardently would cruise to victory…
New report shows ‘news deprivation’ rampant across Canada
According to a new report by the CCPA, almost 2.5 million Canadians live in a postal code with one or no local news outlet, twice the proportion in 2008. Photo…
Think tank pushes more bad ideas to help ‘fix’ Canada’s news media
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hosts the Public Policy Forum’s testimonial dinner in Toronto, April 20, 2017. Photo By Adam Scotti/PMO. Any report published by a so-called “think tank” should be…
Here’s one easy trick to combat foreign political interference in our media
Photo by Can Pac Swire/Flickr The recent national panic over alleged foreign influence on our elected officials has seen politicians and journalists alike issue calls to name the suspected “trai...
Meta’s move to stop fact checking will make truth more elusive
Photo by Christoph Scholz/Flickr We may all become Americans soon if recurring nightmare Donald Trump has his way, but in the meantime, Meta’s move to stop fact checking user posts…
The media world waits breathlessly for Google’s promised $100 million
Unlike the deathly silence that has fallen over Canadian news media in advance of Google making the first of its promised five $100 million annual payments to subsidize news publishers…
‘Goliath versus Goliath’ media battle being fought between Big Telecom and Big Tech
A new form of convergence is roiling Canada’s media, according to Carleton University’s annual report on the state of media industries here. Our media were ravaged at the millennium by…
The Hub trades increasingly in sponsored content
Peter Menzies minces few words in voicing his disdain for Ottawa’s recent wealth redistribution efforts on behalf of Canada’s news media. If he’s not railing against the Online News Act,…
Canada’s news media must be refashioned for the future
Photo by Serge Tanet/Flickr Writing about all of the problems with the ownership of Canada’s news media, as I have done for the past quarter century, has become frustrating. From…
Trudeau’s one-word answer shows his devotion to legacy
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, November 1, 2021. Photo by Ian Forsyth. I met Justin Trudeau once 30 years…
Postmedia’s cuts to newspapers in Atlantic Canada begin to hurt
Cartoon by Michael de Adder Postmedia Network’s takeover of the SaltWire Network newspapers in Atlantic Canada this summer has brought the inevitable cutbacks to editions, journalists an...
Reports of beheaded Israeli babies were bound to be propaganda
Anyone who has studied the history of propaganda must have rolled their eyes as I did upon hearing reports of babies being beheaded by Hamas militants after their incursion into…
News pollution is more dangerous than news poverty in this small BC town
Squamish, British Columbia, as seen from a lookout point located in Stawamus Chief Provincial Park. Photo by Benoit Brummer/Wikimedia Commons. Write what you know best, aspiring writers are ofte...
BC Conservatives adopt election strategy of attacking the media
BC Conservative leader John Rustad. Photo by Don Craig/Flickr. Before our next federal election comes in the next year or so, and even before November’s pivotal US presidential vote, British…